[Spacewalk-list] Why I want to give up on spacewalk

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

Andre,

>Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:01:57 +0200
>From: "Andre Dill" <Andre.Dill at datacash.co.za>  
>
>I don't know if you have looked at this already but I had some weird behavior when running spacewalk on my VMware test server and it seemed related to time. See 
>http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427
>
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Yep - we went through all our servers (> 80) taking care of NTP weeks ago, and I was about to respond to you with exactly the same link. <g>

For those reading this, VMware's own knowledgebase says, explicitly, in the best practices for timekeeping for Linux:
> NTP Recommendations
> Note: In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic 
> time synchronization. Also, you may need to open the 
> firewall (UPD 123) to allow NTP traffic. 

      mark